Brahim Ziane, Project / Program Manager

Brahim Ziane

Project / Program Manager

Dubai Statistics Center

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, MSc. Project Management
Experience
26 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :26 years, 3 Months

Project / Program Manager at Dubai Statistics Center
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2003

Achievements:
• Managed Economic statistics Systems Program
o Financial Survey project
o Consumer Prices Index project
o Industrial Survey project
o Economic Survey project
o System Business Register project
o Free-Zone databases system project
• Managed Demographic statistics Systems Program
o Census Survey project
o Labour Force project
o Housing and Building Survey project
o Health Survey project
• Managed IT Governance Programs including
o Implementation of IT Service Management System in the IT Department based on ITIL standards
o Implementation of ISO 9001:2008
• Played key role in setting up of business strategy of the DSC Knowledge Management.
• Successfully formulated and implemented the execution plan of year 2010-2012
• Leading the development of the project management framework for the organization projects.
• Institutionalizing the internal SDLC methodology within IT Department
• Active participant in Executive management’s meetings and active members in multiple corporate’s committees.
• Instrumental in development of project management framework
• Mentored teams on Project Management and marketed the project management practices across the Organization.

Job Profile:
• Leading the establishment of PMO.
• Assess commitment of IT and business units besides management of associated risks to ensure error free delivery.
• Identification of issues and assessment of risk throughout the program life cycle.
• Identification and execution of action plans to mitigate risks.
• Development and maintenance of good business relationship with all stakeholders; provide leadership to constituent projects.
• Negotiate contractual terms with third party vendors
• Identified long term objectives and short term goals of the projects.
• Developed WBS and schedule along with assignment of resources; estimated and created project budgets.
• Updated project progress in meetings and status reports.

Solutions Architect at Mideast Data Systems - MDS
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2001 to March 2003

Achievements:
• Implementing & analyzing of Ascent Capture and eB Altris for Abu Dhabi Securities Market (ADSM).
• Migration of Sql Server 7 to 2000, and applying all actions needed to get a good performance Tuning (very huge DB) (Al Ain Farmer).
• Installing and implementing MS SQL server 2000 Failover clustering (National Petroleum Construction Company - NPCC)

Job Profile:
• Conducting a training on Ascent Capture and eB Altris for Abu Dhabi Securities Market (ADSM)
• Conducting a training on MS SQL server 2000 for clients (Al Ain Farmer, …)
• Implementation of Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS) for the corporate members. Mideast Data Systems - MDS (Abu Dhabi)
• Development of Digital Dashboards for the corporate members using MS Digital Dashboard and MS Visual Interdev. Mideast Data Systems - MDS (Abu Dhabi)
• Act as Technical lead on Document Management System (DMS- SPS, eB Altris).
• Assist account managers with the technical requirements for creating quotations, RFP's and tenders.
• Assist the Call Center Team to solve issues.
• Responsible for analysis of the organization's workflow and identification of the web and database requirements

Head of Computer Section at Islamic & Arabic Studies College
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 1998 to March 2001

• Manage the IT Section
• Architect, Design and implement Solutions for the College
• Manage and administrate the systems

Education

Master's degree, MSc. Project Management
  • at The British University in Dubai
  • September 2016
Bachelor's degree,
  • at Institut National Informatique
  • October 1996

mention: Very Good with distinction

Specialties & Skills

Training Of Staff
Project Management
Project Portfolio Management
Team Management
Portfolio Management
ITIL -V3
Certified Manager® (CM)
Research

Languages

Arabic
Expert
French
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

PMI
  • member
  • January 2011
Institute Certified Professional Managers
  • member
  • February 2011

Training and Certifications

Certified Manager® (CM) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2011
Valid Until:
May 2012